Hello,

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:03:36AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2005 01:04 schrieben Sie:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:21:48PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > > Package: unison-gtk
> > > Version: 2.10.2-1
> > > Followup-For: Bug #238854
> > >
> > > not only, that starting unison-gtk from kde-menu never asked for a
> > > password and silently quit -- now the workaround to start unison-gtk
> > > from console does not work anymore.
> > >
> > > if i start unison-gtk from console, choose my profile and expect to get
> > > prompted for a passwort, i only see the following messages:
> > >
> > > ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
> > > ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
> > > ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
> > > Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
> > >
> > > i think this bug renders this package unusable for most kde-users.
> >
> > I am not sure this issue really comes from unison in itself. Could you
> > give me the result of "env | grep SSH". I think the variable SSH_ASKPASS
> > is set and that is the error you are seeing. Unsetting it should do the
> > correction.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ env | grep -i SSH
> SSH_AGENT_PID=5705
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-eHulva5677/agent.5677
> 
> BTW I have no ssh-askpass installed. If this program is needed maybe 
> unison-gtk should depend on it since starting unison-gtk directly from the 
> menu never prompts the user for a passwort, what makes this program pretty 
> useless.
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Bastian

No the progam doens't seem to be required, and in fact, it seems not to
be directly referenced in Unison sources ( i can't find it ). I am a
little bit surprised. I need to investigate further on this.

Regard
Sylvain Le Gall

ps: could you install ssh-askpas, just to see if it solves your problem.


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